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• flippy: /flip'ee/ n. A single-sided floppy disk altered for double-sided use by addition of a second write-notch
  o called because it must be flipped over for the second side to be accessible....
• Winchester:: n. Informal generic term for `floating-head' magnetic-disk drives in which the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air cushion.
  The name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte volume...
• lop: n. 1. A one-sided {fudge factor}, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
  For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again....
• Single-sided, low density.
• iffy: [University of Lowell, Massachusetts.] n. 3.
  5-inch {microfloppies}, so called because their jackets are more rigid than those of the 5....
• Silver Book: n. Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Repo
  o called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2)....
• pizza box: [Sun] n. The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstatio
  o named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes....
• firmy: /fer'mee/ Syn. {stiffy} (a 3.5-inch floppy disk). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• charityware: /cha'rit-ee-weir`/ n. Syn. {careware}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary